New X399 motherboards incoming?

[Troezar]

I notice the Asrock Gaming Professional Fatal1ty motherboard is "End of Life" at a competitor and most stockists seem to have very low to no stock of the first wave of boards. Does this mean there are new ones about to land? @Gibbo

 

[Troezar]

Gigabyte X399 AORUS XTREME is fairly new

Yes that and the MSI MEG Creation are the refreshed boards. I suspect there are a lot more incoming probably beefed up for TR2.

 

[Troezar]

Fingers crossed, specing up a 2950x pc just now and would love to have more options!

Very nice. I'm trying to do it on a slightly smaller budget, but should be fun building it up over time. The refreshed boards do look good. Very strong VRMs and more features than you can shake a stick at

 

[Troezar]

I see rumours that X499 may debut at CES in January. Good job I'm in no hurry! Just hope they take first gen TR CPUs.

 

[Troezar]

Gi


You don’t launch a new socket/CPU and then abandon your first gen chips with a chipset update for the same socket type. TR and Ryzen both made commitments to long term socket support, even my x270 supports 2nd gen Ryzen and x370 boards support 1st gen chips.

Yes I've read those commitments. Things can change, I don't expect they will. I just hope they don't assume people will upgrade CPUS rather than motherboards.

 

[Troezar]

This will most likely happen sometime before the new 7nm thread rippers next year. i was going to get 2950x but decided its not worth it with new threadripper so close by. Not worth dropping almost £900 on CPU for it to be OLD in less than a year. At least the 7nm stuff will be new process node and hopefully allow overclocking close to 5ghz.

Makes sense. Those 7nm chips should be beasts. I'm planning to put my "cheap" 1900X in a V2 motherboard then drop in a 7nm once they've dropped in price in a few years time. I can't really justify £500+ on a CPU for what I use them for and I seem to have too many other interests!

 

[Troezar]

I've also been think of building a Threadripper workstation based on the upcoming X399 MSI MEG motherboard and putting a 1900x in temporarily until the 7nm chips are out next year. Here's hoping the above comments are true that it can be done

Checking the MSI compatibility list for the MEG Creation all first and second gen TR CPUs work on it.

 

[Troezar]

Yeah that's obvious I'm asking about the upcoming 7nm next year, I expect it will be fine though.

I think if you buy a decent board it will be fine for 7nm.

 

[Troezar]

I wonder why the x399 fatality is eol? I know I'm biased because I own one (and it cost 400 quid or whatever just months ago), but it seems to have all the features one would expect from he latest boards and it still fits all threadrippers. Can't ASRock be arsed updating the BIOS anymore?

I think there must be some updated ones incoming. Perhaps adding some features to better cope with the high end TR chips?